Some AUDIO goodies for Halloween …

Halloween :: the ancient festival of Samhain
Halloween, the light-hearted modern festivity of ghosts and ghoulies, frights and feast, trick or treat, has much more serious (and scary!) origins in the ancient Celtic Feast of the Dead. This festival has survived, due to its connection with the archetypal energies that it evokes and due to its more recent connection with the Christian festival of All Souls, which the Church has instituted as a substitute for this pagan celebration. (from Astrology on the Web)

As Halloween approaches we find ourselves in need of a soundtrack. Now I know that Barry Manilow records scare the hell out of most people, but lets face it folks there are limits to what is socially acceptable. What does your modern ghoul, vampire or zombie listen to at Halloween?

The mythic, haunting history of Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion will finally be told by voice talent Kat Cressida, the artist whose performance as the gothic “Black Widow Bride” was added in early 2006 to the Disneyland version of the Haunted Mansion attraction as part of park-wide enhancements made to the attractions during Disneyland’s 50th anniversary festivities. [...]
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Nuptial Doom

And we cannot forget the gifts off the ZombieAstronaut;

Last week was vampire-laden, a couple of weeks ago had some werewolf in it, so this week’s Halloween post is Frankenstein-themed – look for whatever novelty tunes I could find, as well as the 30s radio dramatization, the BBC version, a trailer and – a hoax? Curiouser and curiouser…
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then we have a soundtrack to scream along with

Halloween is meant to be scary, right? Year after year we dust off the old silly 1950s and 1960s novelty records. While they are fun, they not at all frightening. Oddio Overplay put the challenge to musical artists the world over to create Halloween music that is “frightening, damaging and disturbing.” No “Monster Mash,” instead creepy soundtracks to a fiendish Halloween. They succeeded with CALLING ALL FIENDS! Some of these pieces will creep you right out of your skin.
Calling All Fiends - Halloween at Oddio Overplay

Feeling creepy yet?

Next on the menu is some Old Time Radio (OTR) Arch Oboler’s Plays or maybe some Beyond Midnight. Also check out some Black Chapel, Black Museum, Boris Karloff, or some Frankenstein all courtesy of RadiolLovers.com